Kids Escape Brooklyn Fire By Jumping From Window

Muhammed Qasim and his wife pushed three of their children from the top window of their burning house to the second-floor ledge below during a raging house fire.

NEW YORK (CBS 2) — A Brooklyn father was forced to make a life and death decision Wednesday morning, as he pushed his children out of a third-floor window to save them from their burning home.

Muhammed Qasim and his wife pushed three of their children from the top window of their burning house to the second-floor ledge below, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.

“When I see everything is burning, the fire is coming to me, so there was no choice,” he said.

There were nine children – cousins, sisters, brothers – in the house. Aamanah Tanat, the oldest at 18 years old, was trapped upstairs.

“I was trying to go downstairs, I was trying to get out of the house, but the fire was coming up and there was no way to get out,” Aamanah said. “I just – there was only one window left, and I opened it, and I just jumped out the window.”